National Review
GOP lawmakers try to remove Ilhan Omar from committees while Dems attacks Taylor Greene
House Republicans want to remove Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) From her committee assignments this week amid a similar fight by Democrats to remove Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) From her assignments. Earlier this week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer reportedly gave GOP leader Kevin McCarthy an ultimatum: Remove Greene from her committee assignments within 72 hours or Democrats will take the matter to the House floor. Greene’s appointment to the House Education and Labor Committee and the House Budget Committee last week sparked outrage among Democrats who said she should be disqualified from serving on the committee over a recently unearthed video of an incident in 2019 in which she was a survivor. of the Marjory harassed The Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which said the survivor was paid for by George Soros, and a 2018 Facebook post in which she agreed that the Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas shootings were “ staged. ” McCarthy met with Greene Tuesday night and told her she should either apologize or be kicked out of at least one of her two committee assignments by the GOP leadership to avoid a politically charged House floor vote, Politico reported. The House will consider a measure this week calling for Greene’s removal from her assignments. Meanwhile, according to Fox News, a GOP-backed amendment calls for the measure to expel Omar from her assignments “in light of the behavior she has displayed.” The Amendment – Sponsored by representatives Brian Babin (R., Texas), Jeff Duncan (R., SC), Jody Hice (R., Ga.), Andy Biggs (R., Ariz.), And Ronny Jackson (R. , Texas) – alleges that Omar made anti-Semitic comments justifying her dismissal. Omar faced criticism from colleagues on both sides of the aisle in February 2019 when she wrote, “It’s all about Benjamin’s baby,” in response to a tweet about McCarthy’s promise to take “action” against her for her criticism of Israel. . The Squad member later suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee paid politicians to take a positive stance on Israel. In the end, she apologized and thanked colleagues for ‘education’ [her] about the painful history of anti-Semitic tropics. The action against Omar comes because Hoyer has said that Greene “should be held accountable for her reprehensible statements.” Greene, a freshman congressman, has gained a controversial reputation for her belief in the QAnon movement, which claims, among other things, that the former President Donald Trump and his allies are secretly working to uncover a deep-state ring of child sex traffickers. Last week she also came under fire after Media Matters unearthed a 2018 Facebook post in which Greene made baseless claims about The cause of the California wildfires, she claimed that the Rothschilds, a wealthy Jewish banking family often the subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, may have used a laser beam from space to start a wildfire to take advantage of it. Several House Democrats have expressed support for both a formal disapproval of Greene and her you eviction from the House.